Migrant stories have two parts: the leaving of an old life, and the building of a new one. Pat Rush's "old life" started in Arkansas. She was born in 1935 and her family worked as laborers picking ...

Pat Rush and her family left Arkansas in the wake of one of the largest migrations in U.S. history, in the hope of making a better life for themselves out west.

Though Rush's family left after the Dust Bowl years were officially over, they took the same path — traveling Route 66, which the migrants called "the Mother Road," until they reached California.

Contrary to the enduring image of “Okies” fleeing en masse to California, the research finds that migrants from the Dust Bowl region were no more likely to move to California than migrants ...

I'd rather drink muddy water Sleep out in a hollow log Than be in California Treated like a dirty dog. * This is what the migrants sang in the 1930s, when the Golden State was anything but ...

Rush’s family was part of the Dust Bowl-era migration to California in the 1940s and lived in migrant worker camps. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) By Hailey Branson-Potts.

What Migrants Displaced By The Dust Bowl And Climate Events Can Teach Us The World Bank predicts climate change may displace 143 million ... many of whom traveled to California in search of jobs.

The Dust Bowl: Documenting the First Migrants to California. Clip: 8/29/2014 | 2m 41s. Dorothea Lange and her husband were the first to document Dust Bowl migrants.